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2 Sheets-Shea*- l E. F. MCGUIRE FEEDER FOR STOCK Filed Oct. 18, 1937 March i5, 1938.

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Patented Mar. 15, 1938 Lindt@ PATENT OFFiCE FEEDER FR STOCK Earl F. McGuire, Coon Rapids, Iowa, assignor of one-half to Nels C. Mortensen, Coon Rapids,

Iowa

Application october 1s, 1937, serial No. 169,732

2 Claims.

This invention aims to provide no-vel means whereby feed in a feed trough may be moistened from water proceeding from a watering trough, novel means being supplied for governing and directing the ow of water, and novel means being supplied for delivering feed and water to the respective troughs,

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that Vchanges in the precise embodiment o-f the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. l shows in side elevation, a device con structed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation;

Fig. 3 is a top plan wherein parts are broken away;

Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section;

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5--5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6--6 of Fig. 1;

30 Fig. '7 is a horizontal section taken through the float chamber.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a trough-like body I, the side walls of which have curved overhanging flanges 2, as shown in Fig. 6. A partition 3 extends. transversely of the body I and forms a first or Watering trough li and a second trough 5. rSecured in the second trough 5 is a feed trough 5, the side walls of which terminate under the flanges 2 of that part of the body I which is individual to the feed trough, the feed trough extending between the partition 3 and one end wall of the body I. The feed trough 6 has a central, longitudinal, upstanding inverted V-shaped deflecting part 'I.

A feed receptacle 8 is straddled on and secured to the part l of the feed trough 6 and extends between the partition 3 and one end of the body I. There is an opening 9 in the partition 3, they opening communicating with the space beneath the part 'l of the feed trough. The receptacle 8 is surmounted by a removable lid Iil.

Secured in the water trough li is a water holder, embodying a tubular casing II provided near its lower end with inwardly projecting stops I5, there being an opening I4 in the lower part of the casing I I, opposite to the opening 9 that leads to the space underneath the part I of the feed trough. The side wall of the casing II has outlets Il, through which Water can pass into the Water trough ll. A Water receptacle I6 is mounted in the casing II, removably, and is` held frictionally therein for vertical adjustment. The water receptacle I 6 carries a lid I2, and ordinarily rests on the stops I 5. n

In the bcttom of the Water receptacle or tank I6 there is an outlet 23, controlled by a valve I6 carried by a lever I9 fulcrumed at one end, as shown at 20, on the bottom of the water receptacle I6. The opposite end of the lever i9 carries a o-at 2|, located in the float chamber 2li that exists in the casing I I, below the water receptacle IS. Downward movement of the lever I9 is limited by a stop rod 22 secured in the lower part of the casing II.

In practical operation, Water in the receptacle I6 flows through the outlet 23 into the float chamber 24, under the control o-f the float valve ZI and from, the float chamber, by way of the openings I'I, into the watering trough 4. From the float chamber 24, waterI flows through the openings I4 and 9 of Figs. 4 and 6 into the space between the second trough 5 and the feed trough E, The water rises between the upright walls of the troughs 5 and Ii and overflows the upper edges of the trough 6, the feed in the trough 6 thus being moistened. The feed of course is delivered into the feed trough 6 from the receptacle 8, the part 'I dividing the feed and causing it to flow in opposite directions.

It will be understood without specific delineation, that if the water or the feed, one or both, requires heating, suitable means to that end may be provided, the same forming no part of the present invention. Y

The level of the water, so that it will overflow the side walls of the feed trough 6, depends to some extent upon the buoyancy of the iioat 2l:

' although the water receptacle I 6 may be adjusted vertically, to regulate the position of the lcat, vertically considered.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

l. In a device of the class described, a bodi7 comprising a watering trough and a feed trough, a water holder, means for establishing communication between the water holder and the watering trough, means for admitting water from the water holder to the feed trough, and float-controlled valve means regulating the flow from the Water holder to the last-specified means.

2. In a device of the class described, a body of the feed trough, the inner Wall of the feed comprising a Watering trough and a feed trough, trough being of less height than the outer Wall the feed trough having spaced inner and outer of the feed trough, whereby Water may rise and Walls, a Water holder, means for establishing comflow over the inner Wall, and float-controlled muncation between the Water holder and the valve means governing the ow from the Water 5 watering trough, means for admitting Water from holder. the water holder to the space between the Walls EARL F. MCGUIRE. 

